CityGML Application Domain Extension (ADE): overview of developments

The Application Domain Extension (ADE) is a built-in mechanism of CityGML to augment its data model with additional concepts required by particular use cases. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the ADE mechanism and a literature review of developments since its introduction a decade ago. The discovery of publications found that currently there are 44 ADEs supporting a wide range of applications, but also application-agnostic purposes such as harmonisation with national geographic information standards. We hope this paper to double as a reference material for the developers of new ADEs.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards

• Publication date

  2018-08-27

• Fields of study

  Geography, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/s40965-018-0055-6
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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